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Number:	70012	Series:	Locos - BR TOPS		Previous	Next
Date on:	04/01/2011	Date off:	25/06/2011	In selection ?This works on your last-used numbers selection, including any filters and sort orders. Buttons will not show if the current number was not in your last selection, or if you are at the beginning or end of the data set.
Status:	X (Extant, Un-registered, Exported (Permanent))			Overall ?This works on the overall numbers list without any filtering or sorting applied.

Batch details: 70001-70020 - Class 70 Co-Co Diesel Electric, built 2009-2012 by General Electric, Erie, Pennsylvania (USA)

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Similar numbers: ?Other items of rolling stock with the same number will be listed here. Please note that there may be further items (for example pre-Nationalisation coaches and wagons) which are not (yet) in the database.
70012 in series Coaching Stock - BR
70012 in series Departmental Stock - BR Southern
70012 in series Wagons - BR TOPS Private Owner

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Sightings: There are 3 sightings for this number. ?Sightings include those under earlier or later numbers carried. There may be further sightings which have not yet been approved.

Number	Date	Location	Working	Notes	Reporter	?Shows the approval status of each sighting. Hover over an icon for an explanation.
70012	22/02/2016	GE Transportation Erie USA	Training & Test Loco	Repaired & Still 70012 & Freightliner Colours	rogue246	Approved, semi/self
70012	12/07/2011	Port Of Halifax Canada		Atlantic Concert Off Loaded For Road Transport	rogue246	Approved, semi/self
70012	21/06/2011	M4 Motorway East Bound	Newport Docks - Liverpool Docks	Alleys Low Loader Lorry M4 For Liverpool Docks Back To USA	rogue246	Approved, semi/self

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01/01/2010	LListing (e.g. in an ABC)	ONon-extant, Registered, On Order	Click here for more details of this prefix	70012	70/0							Approved, auto/admin

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01/01/2010

LListing (e.g. in an ABC)

ONon-extant, Registered, On Order

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70012

70/0

Approved, auto/admin

Notes:

Note added Fri 25/08/2023 by rogue246

Category: Other/General
In use as a training and testing locomotive at the GE works in Erie, Pennsylvania still in Freightliner colours, has been straightened and fitted with railings and an extended platform to allow safe access up and down the locomotive.
Regarding the straightening of 70012 - once supported the bent sections of the frame were cut, heated until straight then had side patches welded into place to strengthen. There is still a twist in the frame and 'Cab Droop'. The power unit was also written off when it was dropped into the hold of the ship during un-loading from the Beluga Endurance at Newport Docks
Source: Erie News

Note added Wed 01/12/2021 by Nat37670

Category: Incidents/Accidents
5 January 2011, 70012 was dropped while being unloaded at Newport Dock when part of the lifting gear failed, causing the locomotive to fall back into the hold of the ship and being severely damaged.
Returned to the USA and has since been repaired as a test bed at the General Electric works Eire, Pennsylvania.
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Data History

Item added:

12:00 on 01/01/2020 by Thomas Young

Record edited 2 times.

Time / Date	Edited by	Change
18:04 on Tue 09/05/2023	Llamafish	dates
19:14 on Wed 01/12/2021	Nat37670	Status set to X.